Outreach Activities
Heat Transfer thru Additive Manufacturing
As part of our NSF
CAREER award, Arad, Matt, Ashlee, and I have designed an outreach
called “Heat Transfer Thru Additive Manufacturing,” which contains
modules to teach K-12 students about the concepts of thermal
conductivity, convection, radiation. One module makes use of 3d
printers that print a plastic that changes color with
temperature. Another module has students learn about thermal
conductivity by seeing their body heat spread through different
materials with a thermal camera. The mode of radiation heat
transfer is also introduced in the context of how the thermal
camera and laser metal printer work. This activity has been
brought to several schools through the Binghamton Promise Summer Camps
(eg Harpursville, Johnson City, Whitney Point), as well as at the
University-Community Mall Day.
Understanding Adsorption thru Filtration
Morteza,
Rebecca, Yingchun, and I developed an outreach activity to show
students how adsorption works. This activity involves students
building their own activated carbon water filters and testing their
effectiveness with food coloring dyed water. The concepts of
adsorption and the applications to separation processes and energy
efficient air conditioning and heating are introduced.
